Paper Heart Garland

I've seen this all over the internet, so this is by no means my own idea. That doesn't make it any less cute, though! First, find yourself a slightly damaged sheet music book (or text book, map, phone book, card stock, whatever!) . I got mine years ago for a dollar.

Cut out a heart template from a cardboard box and trace it a bunch of times on particularly attractive bars.

Cut out all your hearts. I used 40 all together for my garland.

Group your hearts into stacks of two and get to sewing!

Carefully slide the next stack of two under your presser foot as soon as the first is finished- don't overlap, though!

Keep going until you run out of hearts.

Once they're all attached, its time to start folding.

Instead of keeping it flat, bend up two sections, one towards the front, and one towards the back.

And you're finished! Hang it up somewhere!

Easy peasy!

Garden! Finished!

Take a good look at these, because this is a project I will never do again! I couldn't have finished on time without Megs, Nick, Yvonne, Whitney, Doug, and Justin! Thanks, friends! We finished at 5:01 today. Amazing. They finally get to be used on Thursday and then who knows what will happen to them. At least they'll get some press since its for a Press Conference. Local media and such should at the very least have them in a picture, ya know, off to the side or something. Woo! haha.

 Unfortunately, you can't even tell from the pictures how many there actually are. I'll take pictures when they're set up on Thursday, and that will be the end of flower posts for a very long time. Tomorrow, I'll post something completely unrelated to flowers. Two things even. Promise!

More wire flowers! And a video.

I'll be finishing these tomorrow, so I promise I'll post other things soon! But for now, it's the only thing on my mind. At least I'm making progress!

 

And just to liven things up, here's my cat trying to eat a Twizzler. Like momma, like kitten.

Almost a Garden

Yesterday I worked for nearly 7 hours on nothing but wire flowers. If I'm going to meet my deadline, I've got to do the same today. For the first 4 hours its really not so bad... then I realize I'm a one person factory. I watched the episode of Big Band Theory the other day where Penny starts a business making hair clips and gets a 1-day express order for a thousand of them, so all the guys help her assembly line fashion while singing laboring songs... yeah, I want that.

Eighteen down, thirty-two to go. Two days to finish!

I've still got to shape all the flowers to give them some life, and add stems, and make grass, and add the center details, but hopefully I can do that last part fairly quickly. Wish me luck!

Wire Flowers and More Cakes!

Yesterday I was sick all day, but still managed to go to work and bust out some flowers! I've got to finish 50 of these by Thursday, but luckily I've enlisted some help.

They're going to be bright and summery and assorted colors. My prototypes were both hot pink because that's what I happened to have at my desk. They are really simple to construct, too. Just wire, tissue paper, glue stick, and chopsticks for stems.

Those will be what I work on for most of the weekend.
As for today, I made 5 more cake chair covers, and will be cutting letters and candles for the rest of the evening. They get to make their birthday party debuts tomorrow! I can't wait to see them surrounded by balloons and the like. Very festive.

Chair Covers

For a good portion of today, I was busy making super awesome cake chair covers.

I've finished four so far. I've got a bunch more to go, which I plan on finishing up on Friday.

They are for birthday parties at work, just for the birthday kid's chair so its more like their b-day throne!

Luckily I have an Ikea chair at home that is the same as the chairs at work, so I know its a perfect fit! Oh, and what this?

I'll be adding velcro to the back of a ton of letters so the cakes can be even more personalized! Candles are next on the list.

Snow

So I guess everyone was right, we got a snow storm. It's not even bad, it just came down really fast. I do love the way that snow looks, I just hate interacting with it. I park on the street, so if the plow comes to clear the actual street, it means they're just pushing the snow closer to my car. So then when I go out to get my car tomorrow, not only will I have to clear off the car, but I'll have to dig it out of my parking spot as well. Great. I'll worry about that later, but for now, lets just focus on the pretty of it!